Six Bags of Marijuana, 1969
‘Frank J. Long, custom agent with six bags of confiscated marijuana’, in San Francisco, California October 16, 1969
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Raiding Humboldt, 1972
Raiding Humboldt A botched narcotics raid on a cloudy Humboldt afternoon in 1972 would forever escalate the war on drugs. Dirk Dickenson and his girlfriend Judy Arnold enjoyed their off grid homesteaded on Pratt mountain in Humboldt County, California. Their Read More …
Narcotics meeting with Chief of Police, 1951
Narcotics meeting with Chief of Police: “Council members (young Mexican Americans), planning fight on narcotics (marihuana), to be launched at conference.” They all look at a framed ‘assassins of youth’ propaganda flyer. Los Angeles, California – August 26, 1951 L. Read More …
Yearly Collection of Narcotics, 1925
“The yearly collection of narcotics seized by the Narcotic Bureau of the New York Police Department during the year 1924. These 1516 parcels representing 2732 arrests are valued at $2,500,000. The individuals shown are Police Commissioner Richard K. Wright and Read More …
Angola Hemp Pipe, 1900
‘Hemp Pipe’ “Cow’s horn with opening at tip closed at base; hole bond is concave surface of horn for insertion of a short cane tube on which fits a well made pottery bowl with flaring mouth. This is the simplest Read More …
Marijuana Display, 1951
Narcotic officers Marijuana display. Salt Lake City, Utah January 23, 1951
Reefer Resort, 1948
Mitchum’s attorney, the famed Jerry Giesler, told the court the indictment against his handsome client was void and invalid because its language was “indefinite, uncertain, and unintelligible.” “Parts of it,” he said, “aren’t even in the English language. The only Read More …
Dynamite Dreams, 1909
Dynamite Dreams With the railway industry as large as it was in America, someone was bound to try and claim dynamite as a narcotic. They would put a pills worth of dynamite grain in a alcohol drink to ingest it. Read More …